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My New Book: Unlocking the Mahabharata Is Here!

Summary

, 10 min

The launch of Unlocking the Mahabharata, which reads the battle of Kurukshetra as the battle of the nervous system in meditation, the Ventral Vagal pulling outward against the Dorsal Vagal pulling inward. It previews Arjuna's core questions as initiation, the 18 days of battle as roughly 18 months of practice, ego dissolution into samadhi, and the return after it.

In this video

Discusses
Unlocking the MahabharataMahabharataVentral Vagal ComplexDorsal Vagal ComplexArjunaMeaning of lifeEgoSamadhiReintegrationMythology and symbolism
Mentions
KrishnaFreeze ResponseLeft and right brainAshoke ChatterjeePurana PurushaRamayanaBhagavad GitaVyasa

Key moments

00:00Unlocking the Mahabharata is here00:21The battle as a tug of war in your own nervous system02:13Krishna and Arjuna's conversation works down to the core questions03:03Why others don't see it yet, and initiating yourself daily04:0218 days of battle as roughly 18 months of meditation04:49Freeze response, ego dissolving, and samadhi05:38Ashoke Chatterjee: the Mahabharata goes all the way and comes back06:52Unlike the last book: myth woven with neuroscience and the body08:33Kindle, paperback, and a hardcover edition coming